Your article suggested keeping them around.First, they are useful animals, andsecond, it is some of nature you can have close by.

This last part or your article defends them:

Woodchucks do compete on a small scale with farmers’ cattle for food and occasionally get into people’s vegetable gardens [emphasis is mine]. But the view that woodchucks are therefore pests, to be exterminated where possible, is nearly always a short-sighted [ditto] one which overlooks the benefits of having the animals about.

To many hunters, particularly in eastern North America, woodchucks are valuable game animals. Some hunters simply waste the carcass of the animal they shoot, but a growing number are learning that fried, roasted, or stewed woodchuck can be tasty. Late summer and early fall are the common woodchuck hunting seasons. Sometimes woodchucks are trapped for their fur, but it is generally of low value. Many are killed on highways. Although not frequently tamed, the animals make affectionate pets.

Finally, woodchucks are a link with the wild for people who spend more and more time in artificial surroundings. Even just catching a fleeting glimpse from a car of one of these dumpy mammals standing by its roadside burrow can be a much-needed reminder of how satisfying it is to have wild animals around.

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You know where I stand. I know you wouldn't KILL whatever was eating them. You would do the catch and release to a new home in the wilderness farther away...